Holder



. Patented Nov, l5, I898. E. A. LUSEE.

m. mm.

H 0 L D E R (Applicatioq filed June 80, 1896.)

(Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZRA A. LOSEE, OF LAKE CITY, IOWA.

HOLDER.

SPEGIFIGATIIDN forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,117, dated November 15, 1898.

Application filed June 30, 1898. Serial No. 684,902. (Mod L) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EZRA A. LOSEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lake City, in the county of Calhoun and State of Iowa, have invented an Improvement in Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in holders; and the object of the same is to provide a device whereby mop-cloths, brushes, pruning-saws, 650., can be attached to said holder and to a handle for mopping, scrubbing, whitewashing, calcimining, painting, cleaning windows, and pruning fruit-trees.

The figure is a perspective View of said holder.

This holder consists of two metal jaws 2 and 3, extending from the socket 1, said jaws being provided with cross-heads 4 at their extremity,with pointed teeth 5 on the inner side at each corner of said cross-heads to engage with the handles of brushes, &c. Jaw 2 is rigidly connected with socket 1, while jaw 3 is held to socket 1 by a hinged joint 9 and is made adjustable by bolt 6, passing through said jaws,with a square hole 8 in jaw 3 to keep said bolt from turning, and held rigid by thumb-nut 7 when in use. The hinged joint 9 consists in an extension of socket 1, with hole to take the bolt that passes through a hole in end of jaw 3 and said extension to hinge jaw 3 to socket 1. The socket 1 consists of a hollow tube rigidly connected with jaw 2 and having a hole 10 to take the screw that holds the handle or pole rigidly in place.

What I claim as my new invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A holder of the kind specified, consisting in two jaws 2 and 3, extending from socket 1, said jaws being provided with cross-heads 4, at their extremity,with pointed teeth 5, on the inner side at each corner of said crossheads, and a bolt 6, passing through the center of said jaws, with thumb-nut 7, to make jaw 3, adjustable, while hinged to socket 1, and a hollow-tube socket 1, rigidly connected with jaw 2,with an extension forming part of hinge 9, with a hole, to take the bolt thatpasses through the end of jaw 3, to hinge jaw 3, to socket 1, and a hole 10, to take the screw that holds the handle or pole rigidly in place, substantially as described.

EZRA A. LOSEE.

Witnesses:

G. 0. SMITH, J. 0. SMITH. 

